Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Testosterone is a powerful male sex hormone which is manufactured by male sex glands, was discovered in The Netherlands in 1935, and made synthetically in Switzerland the same year from the fat of sheep's wool. In the hands of competent doctors, testosterone has definitely helped cases of pathological sex inadequacy, by bringing the patient's sexual functioning up to par. But there is no evidence that it retards the natural sex decline and general debility of old age. Last week the experiments of Dr. V. G. Korenchevsky of Britain's Lister Institute proved that testosterone prolongs...
...scientist found that testosterone does increase the size of external sex organs in elderly rats-"but it does not cause any noticeable improvement in their appearance and behavior. As these organs . . . may be well preserved in otherwise senile animals and men, the absence of a rejuvenating effect is not surprising. . . . Without simultaneous improvement of the general condition, this sex stimulation is biologically unnatural and in human patients is medically undesirable...
Moreover, while the external organs of stimulated rats grew larger, the sex glands themselves grew smaller...
Died. Henry Havelock Ellis, 80, bronzed, white-bearded essayist, editor (The Mermaid Series of Old Dramatists), sexologist, whose lifework (housebreaking sex) is contained in his monumental four-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex; in Hintlesham, England...
...bored to take inch-wide bamboo plugs in each nostril, how a native village smells two days' travel away ("an acrid odor . . . like smoke from a bonfire of rubber boots"), how a trail-cutter can die from a cobra bite before hitting the ground. His accounts of jungle sex are more colorful if less accurate than an anthropologist's. For squeamish readers there is always the dedication: "To Mother...